Everyone has his or her hero. My hero is Zhang Jianna. Let me tell you something about her.
Zhang is a 50-year-old ________ from Hebei. She worked as a waitress and a sales clerk in Beijing at first. In 2012, she became a sanitation (公共卫生) worker in Sanlitun.
There are many embassies (大使馆) in the area. One day in 2014, a foreigner walked up to Zhang outside an embassy. He asked her some ________, but she couldn’t understand him. They looked at each other in confusion (困惑). ________ Zhang graduated from high school, she had forgotten most of her English knowledge. From that day on, she ________ to relearn English. Then she began to study her children’s English books. She memorized the words at night and repeated them the next morning. In ________ free time, she used some apps on her smartphone to learn English. She ________ practiced English conversations with her children.
Zhang’s efforts have paid off (得到回报). Now, she can ________ English-speaking tourists smoothly. She can help them with giving directions and giving information about the city. Zhang is in charge of a sanitation team. They need to ________ more than 100,000 square meters of road every day. They also need to clean more than 300 waste bins near 56 embassies daily. Zhang has learned the English names of all these embassies as well.
“English is like a ________,” Zhang said. “It helps me introduce Beijing to the world.” The studious (用功的) sanitation worker even plans to study a ________ language in the future. “I’ve heard that French is beautiful, and I’d like to learn it!”
【小题1】A.writer | B.teacher | C.worker | D.doctor |
【小题2】A.questions | B.dreams | C.ideas | D.hobbies |
【小题3】A.After | B.Before | C.And | D.Because |
【小题4】A.stopped | B.hated | C.decided | D.refused |
【小题5】【小题6】A.hardly | B.seldom | C.never | D.also |
【小题7】A.play with | B.talk with | C.fight with | D.argue with |
【小题8】A.run | B.hurt | C.clean | D.build |
【小题9】A.room | B.house | C.bottle | D.bridge |
【小题10】A.common | B.hard | C.simple | D.new |